has its own lucky star and it takes the form of the reimagining of a 1924 Lanvin costume made by the house especially for the event. This is not a collection piece, but a costume, christened “Vogue,” and made for “Soirée de Paris,” an evening of performances organised by the Comte de Beaumont and supported by 100 years ago, in June 1924. This project brought together an impressive group within fashion and culture; among the latter were Madame Lanvin, Hermès, and the shoemaker Perugia.
The piece that inspired the one in Vogue Worl: Paris is now in the collection of the Palais Galliera. It’s an inky knit swimsuit encrusted with shining diamanté stars for a dance performance (Trois pages dansées) choreographed and with sets by Valentine Hugo. A dress version of the look was modelled on the Place Vendôme, while a reinvented swimsuit will be displayed in the vitrine chez Lanvin.
A house representative explained that the atelier retained the “natural lines of the Vogue swimsuit by Jeanne Lanvin” and added scarf-like falls that reference other Lanvin designs from 1924. Black silk squares are inserted at the hips for freedom of movement, and squares of muslin waft down from the shoulders. At the back hangs a necklace-like chain with the maison’s mother and child logo (created by Paul Iribe in the ’20s) and the marks from Arpège (Lanvin introduced a fragrance division in 1924).
It’s the embellishments that capture the lion’s share of the attention, as.
